Medical testing on animals, death penalty are less acceptable now. https://news.gallup.com/poll/1681/moral-issues.aspx

People are more accepting but at the same time say that moral values are getting worse.

I was left out, 55% acceptable. https://news.gallup.com/poll/1681/moral-issues.aspx

Poor Japan :/

Wonder which one is Australia's

I sincerely hope those US firms use that money wisely and don’t waste it on foolish things like stock buybacks

It is = what it is

The spend on the P&Ls that I’ve managed reflect this

Important to keep in mind that much of this is driven by exchange rate fluctuations.

>The US is fifty different markets, every state has its own laws

In worst case scenario, corporations will take the most restrictive law (aka California) and apply it throughout. The same doesn't happen in the EU. There are language requirements for packaging/instructions for instance. And things that might be approved for use in one country but not the next, you rarely find that between states.

Again on the language. If you create a digital product for the US, you have to do one site. If you create one for the EU, you have to create at least 2, one for your local market and one in english. It's not just "laws and restrictions", and in some cases the lack of "laws and restrictions" made certain products obsolete (Malaise era american cars for instance) as other markets had to innovate to comply with more demanding regulation.

>Exactly. And the important thing is learning why and how this happens. Venezuela is another outlier in economics. Look at the laws, regulations, political and economic systems each country has and you'll know why they have different levels of development.

The classic speedrun to mention Venezuela on reddit. We all know why Switzerland is rich. Centuries of "neutrality" cementing it as the bank of Europe. Then that capital being invested in high value added/luxury industries like pharmaceuticals, chocolate, watches. You can't expect to do the same thing on a country with 10x the population and arrive at the same GDP/capita, the amount of people/companies looking for what Swiss banks offer will not magically scale 10x so Germany can achieve the same numbers. And if every country focuses on making the same high value product, at some point it stops being high value.

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You guys believe in communist China data?

https://www.voanews.com/a/satellites-shed-light-on-dictators-lies-about-economic-growth/6813119.html

"A report published by the Brookings Institution in 2019 suggested that China had been overstating its economic growth by about 2% every year, making its economy 12% smaller than official figures"

'Likely'

When I say wages, I mean to say the hourly wage, not salaried positions.

And that being said, 50% of Americans making less than $30,000 a year.

That's a lot of people!

Water ain't a right, it's drip or drown /s

Wages in the US are likely the highest on this list lol

It’s a pretty selective list.

Yet everyone else has medical care and we don't.

Wouldn't be essentially poo water?

Yes, higher than India's double representation.

Yeah. When a company is like 1/5th of your economy, you're probably not going to have 60 of the top companies by market cap there.

Yeah. When a company is like 1/5th of your economy, you're probably not going to have 60 of the top companies by market cap there.

Ghost Map is a great book about John Snow and epidemiology!

Ehm, they are much higher

US would be gaining a lot of share over time while europe would be heavily losing

>The only one I find truly surprising is the married affair.

You could say the same on most of these. Like Polygamy.

"Suuuure, it's fine -- I want 6 wives! Sounds good to me!"

yet if there was someone on their street who was married to half a dozen attractive people, while they couldn't get a date you know they'd be complaining to everyone about how it's all that person's fault for stealing all their womens.

It matters how the mistake was made. Is this who growth crap, or does one country have the wrong flag?